If you'll be around Beachport, SA this summer holidays check out Wattle Range Council's Coastal Connections program! There's a fantastic line-up of activities for all ages, including rockpool rambles and estuary discovery activities led by NGT's Jess Bourchier plus Indigenous cultural events, shorebird sessions, and...
With a lot of anticipation, back in October Lisa and I met with students from Hamilton Parklands School and Good Shepherd College at Walker Swamp for a final field trip. Since the start of the year, we have been working with students to co-develop a...
In late October the year 5/6 class from Newbery Park Primary School joined NGT's Jess and Angus at Southend, SA jetty for a sustainable fishing workshop as part of the school's ongoing environmental and cultural education program. The sun was shining and it looked set...
Last month, year 11 students from Investigator College and year 4 and 5 students from Adelaide-based schools shed their sneakers, slid into waders and took on the aquatic environment to learn about threatened and introduced aquatic species. Their efforts were rewarded with a bounty of...
It’s been a very busy couple of months with a large number of volunteer events and school groups at both Hutt Bay and Mt Burr Swamp as part of the Recharge Farms project being delivered in partnership with the Limestone Coast Landscape Board (in case...
Students from Investigator College, Victor Harbor, were recently treated to a series of hands-on education sessions about turtles, snakes and fish at the Currency Creek EcoCentre. Students learnt about the adaptations of reptiles as part of their Term 1 Biological Sciences unit. During the excursion...
We recently held the final two workshops in a series at Hutt Bay; one on local Aboriginal culture and the second an intertidal reef exploration.First up, on Friday the 11th of March, we hosted Aunty Michelle for two sessions on Boandik customs, first with students...
One of the great challenges in trying to understand how long-term gradual change (caused by drivers like climate) is impacting on the biodiversity of a region, is being able to afford and carry out the monitoring required to obtain the data that shows what is...
We're very excited about the next event in our workshop series centred around Hutt Bay: this time we'll be learning about the area's Boandik cultural heritage with Aunty Michelle Jacquelin-Furr.Back in 2018 we worked with Aunty Michelle in ForestrySA's biodiversity schools program in which...
Since the early days of NGT, environmental education has been an integral part of what we do. We have worked both on a once-off basis and developed longer-term programs with local primary and secondary schools in South Australia and Victoria to help students learn more...
